DENNISWORTH FARMHOUSE

DENNISWORTH FARMHOUSE, SHORTWOOD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1289567
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1952
List Entry Name:: DENNISWORTH FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: DENNISWORTH FARMHOUSE, SHORTWOOD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1289567
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1952
List Entry Name:: DENNISWORTH FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: DENNISWORTH FARMHOUSE, SHORTWOOD ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DENNISWORTH FARMHOUSE, SHORTWOOD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pucklechurch
National Grid Reference:: ST 69405 76027

Details

ST 67 NE PUCKLECHURCH C.P. SHORTWOOD ROAD (west side)

4/199 Dennisworth Farmhouse 17.9.52 G.V. II*

Farmhouse, now house. Late C17 with few later alterations. Limestone rubble with stone dressings, double Roman tiled roof with raised coped verges, ridge stacks and gable stack to left with diagonal chimneys. T-plan formed by rear stair tower. 2½ storeys and 3 windows, all cross windows with leaded lights, flat moulded mullion and transom in recessed architrave, continuous hood mould to 3 ground floor windows and door, continuous dripstone at first floor returned to sides, 3rd bay from right has studded door in heavy stone bolection-moulded surround and broken pediment; 3 gables rising to ridge height, 2 to right with smaller cross windows with hood mould, to left, blank (stack above) oval bull's eyes in rectangular surround, ball finials; attached to left 3 small gabled additions of varied sizes, to left with door and porch, centre with cross window and hood mould, to right single light with hood mould. Left return has single storey lean-to with C20 window, 2-storey flat-roofed block to left with small segmental-headed stone window with ventilation louvres; first floor has similar cross window with dripstone, cross window in gable end with bull's eye above. Right return has single storey lean-to, first floor and 2nd floor windows as at left return. Rear has 3 gables as on front (without finials), 2½ storey stair tower with gable to all 3 sides, ground and first floor 2-light casement with hood mould, lead water spouts and oval bull's eye; left return of tower as front with single storey lean-to, right return has only 2nd floor window and bull's eye, small single storey addition to right with similar 2-light casement, lean-to to right over cellar entry. Main house has to left, ground, first and 2nd floor cross windows with continuous hood moulds and bull's eye in gable, small similar 2-light casement ground floor left; to right of tower, 2 gables, first and 2nd floor windows as on front, ground floor right has top sections of former cross window remaining, C20 door inserted below. Interior: large kitchen fireplace with chamfered depressed 4-centred arch; central hall, fine framed newel stair with moulded risers, carved string, twisted balusters and heavy shaped newels, wide moulded handrail, panelled moulded soffit; small door to cellar with dentil cornice. For further details, see sources. (Sources: Hall, L. : unpublished survey, NMR).

Listing NGR: ST6940576027

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 396873
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.